Passages Malibu sent a baseless trademark infringement claim

made it perfectly clear thanks very well said!!

Someone skipped 7. The count went from 6 to 8, so the count is off by one or more.
Anyhow, this is quite the comment Rsident47 - keep up the great work !!

Maybe Jess' Mom was #07? Well, the count was skewed from the first day, originating with my very small joke, which has been extended by some kindly readers.

By the by, I've since seen one of the TV spots mentioned previously, during cheap airtimes. I wish there was a wider shot of that greasy guru Pax Prentiss, to inspect for a slime trail left behind.

No comment about your post, but that is one peach of a cute little cat!

It's called the Streisand Effect.

So true and well-put!  I've always thought that ad was a crock, for the same reason.  :-(  How do they get away with such blatant [***]?  Must be those awesome lawyers.  ;-)

Yes, I did mention that hazard here two years ago.

Most advertising is fraudulent to some degree. The kinds airing in the cheap TV slots are among the worst liars. If we wrote the FTC a blank check in the next budget bill, they would still not contain all the misleading pitches.

I'm noticing an entire addiction industry vying for the same soft targets, one which will not admit to them that the real "cure" is adaptation to a different set of priorities. The rehab business is so ripe for abuse since ultimately it's possible to blame the customer for adverse outcomes. The given solution is repeating the thing which is not curing but perpetuating the problem. A similar cycle is the turbine for other industries: credit cards, payday lending, for-profit tech schools, casinos built as "job creators", online dating.

Maybe the half-billion dollar penalty newly laid on Johnson & Johnson, now dubbed the "kingpin" opioid pusher, will help us confront entrapment as a business model. Or maybe the "No More Tears" bunch will appeal it down to a few grand and nothing changes.

I remember those same commercials and always wondered how he became "no longer an addict. Everything I know about addiction states that addiction is for life. You can learn to control it but you can not ever be cured of it. Always wonder how no one ever sued them for that statement.

Clearly a certain company's lawyers have an addiction to frivolous litigation department.

I Just want to pass this message along from tiger, so you don't get in trouble like I did.

"Um, this is a phone number look-up site. Did they call you? If so, use this website properly & post under the phone number they called you from. If not, why are you here?"

I don't find that complaint relevant to the topic, beginning with yet another empty legal threat against 800Notes. Admin's been through here a couple times to remove posts. I think the thread would be cut much shorter if there was a larger pattern of misuse.

Ok cool.  I'm not sure what you meant by "legal threat," but I wasn't trying to make any legal threats or anything.  I was just passing along what tiger told me once.  Glad it's good!

The thread topic concerns a legal threat. I see now that my sentence construction five days ago could be misleading.

I see.  No worries.